Funj Sultanate

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The Funj Sultanate was an early modern Islamic kingdom in what is now Sudan, known for unifying much of the Nile Valley region and fostering a distinctive blend of African and Arab cultures.

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Label Occurrences
Funj Sultanate canonical 3

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historical state
sultanate
alsoKnownAs Blue Sultanate NERFINISHED
Sultanate of Sennar NERFINISHED
borderedBy Darfur Sultanate NERFINISHED
Ethiopian Empire NERFINISHED
Ottoman Egypt NERFINISHED
Red Sea NERFINISHED
capital Sennar NERFINISHED
conqueredBy Muhammad Ali dynasty of Egypt NERFINISHED
continent Africa
country Sudan
currency barter
gold
declineCause Ottoman–Egyptian expansion NERFINISHED
internal dynastic conflicts
provincial autonomy
economy agriculture
slave trade
trade
endTime 1821
ethnicGroup Arabs
Funj NERFINISHED
Nubians NERFINISHED
followedBy Egyptian–Ottoman rule in Sudan
Turkiyah in Sudan NERFINISHED
foundedBy Funj people NERFINISHED
governmentType monarchy
knownFor Islamization of central Sudan
blend of African and Arab cultures
development of Sufi Islam in Sudan
unifying much of the Nile Valley in Sudan
locatedIn Nile Valley NERFINISHED
central Sudan
eastern Sudan NERFINISHED
military cavalry
firearms acquired through trade
notableCity Argo NERFINISHED
Kosti region NERFINISHED
Sennar NERFINISHED
officialLanguage Arabic
partOf Islamic world NERFINISHED
politicalStructure centralized monarchy with provincial governors
precededBy Alodia NERFINISHED
Makuria NERFINISHED
religion Sunni Islam
startTime c. 1504
usedLanguage Nobiin NERFINISHED
local Nubian languages
yearOfConquest 1821

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Funj Sultanate
Description of subject: The Funj Sultanate was an early modern Islamic kingdom in what is now Sudan, known for unifying much of the Nile Valley region and fostering a distinctive blend of African and Arab cultures.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sennar State historicalRegionOf Funj Sultanate
Kingdom of Alodia successorState Funj Sultanate
Turco-Egyptian Sudan precededBy Funj Sultanate